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· 5/17/2013

Center for Food Safety v. Thomas Vilsack

Citations

  • 718 F.3d 829
  • 43 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20111
  • 2013 WL 2128324
  • 76 ERC (BNA) 1942
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 9920

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining concerns with pesticide-resistant weeds and the increased use of pesticides associated with GE alfalfa
  • upholding conviction where untaxed cigarettes excluded from definition of “contraband” when possessed by government agents and Congress expressly authorized law enforcement “to conduct commercial endeavors in the context of undercover investigations”
  • rejecting the plaintiff’s argument that the agency “simply cut and pasted [the private party’s] reports into the FEIS’s appendices, passing them off as agency work product,” thereby failing in the agency’s duties to independently evaluate and verify the data
  • explaining economic concerns raised by GE alfalfa

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Judges: Schroeder, Thomas, Smith

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